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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:37:32 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] atl1: disable TSO by default
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Jay Cliburn wrote:
> The atl1 driver is causing stalled connections and file corruption
> whenever TSO is enabled.  Two examples are here:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/325
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/18/543
> 
> Disable TSO by default until we can determine the source of the
> problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
> cc: stable@kernel.org
> ---
> 
> Jeff, I've been trying to find the source of this problem in my
> spare time for a few weeks now, but haven't been successful.  We
> turned on TSO by default in 2.6.26 after fixing a nasty performance
> bug in it, but there's apparently another bug lurking.
> 
> This patch needs to be also applied to 2.6.26, hence the cc to
> stable.
> 
>  drivers/net/atlx/atl1.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

applied


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